Palladian

Sophie Matisse's hand-painted chess board and pieces, conceived as a meditation on Palladian geometry and the languid elegance of Noël Coward's Jamaican sanctuary.

Each element, meticulously composed, speaks to the lineage of modernist colour and the timeless grammar of classical proportion. The board becomes a stage; the pieces, sculptural actors in an intimate theatre of strategy and contemplation. Commissioned by Purling, this one-off work arrives in its original presentation, cradled within a Perspex vitrine—a transparent threshold between the everyday and the extraordinary.

Accompanied by a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity from the artist herself, a direct lineage to the great-grandfather whose vision continues to animate contemporary practice. A work for the collector who understands that true luxury resides in the singular, the considered, and the irreplaceable.